The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

Why it was recommended

There's a good Tom Scott video on this too.

Recommendationceph_ · Original2017-12

What it covers

Tom Scott visits Cloudflare's San Francisco office to show the wall of lava lamps whose camera feed is used as a source of entropy for random number generation. It is a short. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Tom Scott

Length

3 min 59 sec

Year

2017

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